The Opelousas courier., 1887-06-18
THE HAIR A
Some Facts About the Bust.
ness in New York.
Hair Used in Making Switches, Etc,
Comes Principally from Europe.

Comes Principally from Europe.
The word bangs and arc pref
ty generally associated with each other
1t is not exactly appropriate that a new
bang should be called the "Willics," bu'
it is. This bang is woven on a networl
of fine hair, with a short, straight cut in
front, parted in. the middle, and is worn
by the "Willies," or the dudes of the
town. Hence the name. But this class
of humanity will not draw the line al
bangs. Some energetic ventilators on
hair work have devised and woven all
the latest cuts on whiskers, and this
season at the watering places the Willies
may vie with the counts and lords in
full-grown English cuts. The wind
blows through more false whiskers than
persons not in the hair business would
imagine.
A person unacquainted with the hair
business forms no idea of the hard work
poor girls do in these stores and for very
little pay. The class of workers arc what
is known to the business as ''weavers and
ventilaters." Weayers are employed to
straighten out hair and form it into
switches. These girls earn from 81 to So
per week. 'Ventilators' make q fine
network of Ii il, upon which they work
in bangs, wigs, and front pieces, r%ecciv-
ing the same pay as the weavers. The
hair used for making switches, bangs,
etc, is principally S Mt from Bremen.
Over there people have their hair cut
every few months, and get good prices
for it. This, with what is taken from
dead people, is almost sufficient to sup
ply the American market. Some dealers
use yack or goats hair with the real hair,
but it is not durable. 1t is soft and
fragile, and is used mostly in making
wigs for masquerades.
This business OF hairmaking is a fear
full straiu upon the eyes, and for this
reason, together With the small pay it
brings, very few girls learn the trade.
All half stores in the city are supplied
with wigs of every color of hair for pri-
vate theatricals and nrasquerades. These
they rent for 81 a night. There are
many persons in the city, too, who for
iack of natural hair are obliged to wear
wigs. A prominent railroad official,
who frequently visits New York, wears
very natural blond WIG. He is fault
lessly neat in p rson and exact in man.
ner. While discussing the interstate
commerce ILL with two young ladies
who wanted passes at his office ono day
MS secret was discovered, the wig having
become sadly disarranged. He was
much chagrined, as all persons arc who
year wigs and their vanity is found out.
There is a certain secrecy with persons
Who wear false hair that they can't quite
A young lady came into the
tore while the reporter stood there. and
n a low tone of voice said she wanted to
'et her hair, which was a golden yellow.
lyed back to is original brown color.
For" added she. s.Chollie's got home.
nc don't like my hair b~leached."
But strange as it may seem, false hair
oes not orly extend to bangs and
witches, but eyebrows as well. IT has /
one to pass now that a person cannot |
I'll whether a man OF woman wears his |
her own eyebrow or NOT. There are
'veral people in this city who have j
Undergone the painful operation of hay |
eyebrows crochctcd to their akin. {
he skin is raised, the hair is inserted.
when the required thickness is
'ached the skin is let loose and allowed
grow together again, holding the J
N fast IN place, and having a natural :
ok. The pain, however, seems TO be I
'thing compared to the modification Of
Jag through the world eyebroYless.
There are asscore of hair stores within :
radius of two blocks about the corner :
Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street.
owner of one Of these is an urbane :,
'enchman who said: s.Ah. &c reDer- :.
re. Yer strange person ze reportaire
come my store in last week. He put "
! hand his eyebrow on and say to me !
lester, would not you dees your eye !,
oW cali?' say c~ertainment. Zen he
Ugh and slap me ze shoulder on an, :
J, Vel, I wouldn't. / would call it
eyebrow Zen be went laughing
hart out. IN. Z. Sun. =